Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] that it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except , as we have seen , for confident bourgeois like James Mill and Edward Miall , both those who campaigned for universal suffrage , like the Chartists in the 1830s and '40s , and those who dreaded and opposed it were agreed that it would lead to the political domination of the working class . |
| 2 | Although the constitution was passed unanimously , fears were raised that it would infringe the rights of the Russian minority in Turkmenistan . |
| 3 | ‘ The fair is the highlight of our week long festival and we were determined that it should go ahead , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The programme received financial assistance from UNICEF and it was intended that it should perform three basic tasks : |
| 5 | Founded by William of Waynflete in 1484 it was intended that it should act as a feeder to Magdalen College itself , which he also founded . |
| 6 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 7 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 8 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 9 | The conference was assured that truly ‘ intelligent ’ machines would come , It was conceded that it might take a few hundred years . |
| 10 | While there was near unanimity that there should be a single validating body , it was felt that it should cover all courses below degree level , including OND . |
| 11 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 12 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |
| 13 | Shouting ( euphemistically called ‘ atmosphere ’ ) is part of the British system of politicking ; indeed , in 1945 , a conscious decision was made that it should remain so . |
| 14 | Somebody phoned an ambulance and was told that it would take between an hour and an hour and a half to arrive , so Derek volunteered to drive me to Casualty at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth , forty-five miles away . |
| 15 | So cunning was the sculptors ' work that the story was told that it would come alive to guard the pass against any invader . |
| 16 | Kerry Evans said at Shrewsbury Crown Court that he asked Edward Browning about the blood , and was told that it must have come from an animal he had hit while driving to Scotland . |
| 17 | I was told that it could spread through the intestines to the stomach and lungs and then you had pretty much had it . |
| 18 | The target date of 1992 was chosen for the completion of the single market and it was thought that it would take the lifetime of two Commissions to complete the programme . |
| 19 | When this book was first envisaged it was thought that it should include a comprehensive guide to sexual aspects of the law in Britain as these might impinge upon social work practice . |
| 20 | ‘ I was saying that it must have seemed a terrible invasion of your privacy to find a pair of binoculars locked on your deck earlier . ’ |
| 21 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |
| 22 | By setting up a nuclear energy community at the outset , it was believed that it could provide an important impetus towards closer integration . |
| 23 | A joint economic commission to monitor links was established and it was hoped that it would meet on a regular basis . |
| 24 | Because of the pressure on Drigg this was the most urgent requirement , and it was hoped that it would attract less opposition than the Billingham mine . |
| 25 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 26 | By late March only seven of a reported 571 oil well fires had been capped and it was estimated that it might take a further three years to extinguish all the fires . |
| 27 | It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , perhaps because of the procedural problems outlined above , Article 100A(4) appears to have been used for the first time only in 1992 , in relation to German legislation banning the use of PCP ( pentachlorophenol ) despite the fears expressed at the time the Single European Act was signed that it would destroy the Court 's achievements in this sphere . |
| 29 | I was assured that it will pick everybody up . |
| 30 | for Moore , to say that an act was right was to say that no alternative action would produce better consequences , while to say that it was ‘ a duty ’ or ‘ obligatory ’ was to say that it would produce the best consequences possible . |